Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Figures in Bombed Streets
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Figures in Bombed Streets
Sketchbook
- Page 62 from First Shelter Sketchbook
Date1940-41
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1620
Date Order NumberAG 40-41.62
Papercream lightweight wove
Dimensionspaper: 181 x 160 mm
Inscription
pen and ink u.l. Blanketed figure in bombed street; pencil u.r. Seated woman with (overwritten &) child; l.c. Figure lying down
OwnershipThe British Museum, London, bequeathed by Lady Clark
More InformationFirst Shelter Sketchbook p.62. In all three sketches the human figures dominate the architecture against which they are set. The composition of the section upper left is reminiscent of Tintoretto's Exhumation of the Body of St Mark in the Accademia, Venice, which Moore is likely to have seen in 1925.
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